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Next in the hotseat: Newlands Anning - send us your questions for the mental health expert

NEXT up in the Adver’s Hotseat is Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership’ head of professions and practice for the Swindon locality and innovation development lead, Newlands Anning.

Newlands who has been a registered mental health nurse since 2003, graduated from UWE, Bristol.

He has a wide range of experience working in acute mental health settings, mainly within intensive teams and in-patient units, as well as extensive ward management experience.

He has worked as a modern matron for specialist services which included an eating disorder inpatient unit and Perinatal inpatient unit.

His postgraduate qualifications include an Msc in management and leadership in health and social care and a diploma in innovation and change management.

He is currently working as head of profession and practice within the Swindon locality, as part of the triumvirate management structure alongside the managing director Paula May and Clinical Director Dr Sammad Hashmi.

The main roles of this position include service development and improvement, assurances of high standards of care provision to the service users and carers within the Swindon area.

Send any questions on mental health issues you wish to put to Newlands to newsdesk@swindonadvertiser.co.uk.

Comments (1)

Having met with Newlands and other senior AWP staff at a poorly advertised AWP feedback session at West Swindon ASDA last week, where a number of patients couldnt even find the first floor meeting room as no signs or meeter greeters were there !, several patients and carers attending found it extremely upsetting and depressing to hear the feedback, which I hope was fully and accurately noted by the AWP minute taker who was present and will appear in the AWP record of the meeting which they said was going to be sent to all who attended. We heard of horrendous multiple failures of AWP extending over many years, and we heard about the NEGLECT and ABUSE these patients have been, and in some cases STILL ARE being subjected to to this day - I trust those VERY SENIOR AWP staff present will now formally raise concerns and alerts to MARK DEAN at AWP or even to ther professional bodies - OR WILL THAT TOO BE COVERED UP AND ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ?

Having met with Newlands and other senior AWP staff at a poorly advertised AWP feedback session at West Swindon ASDA last week, where a number of patients couldnt even find the first floor meeting room as no signs or meeter greeters were there !, several patients and carers attending found it extremely upsetting and depressing to hear the feedback, which I hope was fully and accurately noted by the AWP minute taker who was present and will appear in the AWP record of the meeting which they said was going to be sent to all who attended. We heard of horrendous multiple failures of AWP extending over many years, and we heard about the NEGLECT and ABUSE these patients have been, and in some cases STILL ARE being subjected to to this day - I trust those VERY SENIOR AWP staff present will now formally raise concerns and alerts to MARK DEAN at AWP or even to ther professional bodies - OR WILL THAT TOO BE COVERED UP AND ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ?underdogs